"Food for me was a connecting link to my grandmother, to my childhood, to my past. And what I found out is that for everybody, food is a connector to their roots, to their past in different ways. It gives you security; it gives you a profile of who you are, where you come from." - Lidia Matticchio Bastianich

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Saturday, February 9, 2008

This is my aaji's (paternal grandmother) recipe. It was her way of using the leftover bread/paav before it gets rotten. I do not know where she learned about caramelizing the sugar. Since she didn't eat eggs, this bread pudding is eggless.

7. Steam in a pressure cooker for about 30 minutes. When steam starts coming, switch the gas to low.

Notes -

1. My aaji used home-made white butter.

2. I have used a vanilla bean instead of vanilla essence in the above recipe.

3. The whole point of using the dome-shaped pudding container is that when the pudding is ready, you can invert the container and get a beautiful dome-shaped pudding with a beautiful caramel on top. But everyone was so eager to eat the pudding that I had to skip that part. We just spooned the pudding right from the container!!:-)